'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art

'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780814792766
ISBN-13 : 0814792766
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Download or read book 'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art written by Kathleen Wheeler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the narrative strategies and stylistic devices of modernist writers and of earlier writers normally associated with late realism. In the case of the latter, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather are shown to have engaged in an ironic critique of realism, by exploring the inadequacies of this form to express human experience, and by revealing hidden, and contradictory, assumptions. By drawing upon insights from feminist theory, deconstruction and revisions of new historicism, and by restoring aspects of formalist analysis, Kathleen Wheeler traces the details of these various dialogues with the literary tradition etched into structural, stylistic and thematic elements of the novels and short stories discussed. These seven writers are not only discussed in detail, they are also related to a literary tradition of dozens of other women writers of the twentieth century, as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Stevie Smith and Jane Bowles are shown to take the developments of the earlier three writers into full modernism.


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